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Friday May 16, 2025

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5 – 10 pm

Free Friday Nights

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The Whitney Museum of American ArtManhattan

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5 – 9 pm

Date Night at the Met

The Met Fifth AvenueUpper East Side

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5 – 10 pm

Decade Downtown Dance Party by DJ Justin Strauss and Public Records

Art
Free

The Whitney Museum of American ArtChelsea

Draft

5 – 8 pm

May Family Shabbat: Bring a Friend

Ages: 3 – 12
Community
Family
Food & Drink

Temple Emanu-ElStaten Island

5 – 8 pm

The Pepsi Challenge

Yankee StadiumBronx

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5:30 – 7 pm

Reading & Drawing Event with Andrea Cáceres

Ages: All
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Family

artudioBrooklyn

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6 – 9 pm

Torch and Crown: Music with Shawn Parsons (@alabamashawn) & Matthew Lee & The Standbys (@mattyandthestandbys)

Torch and CrownManhattan

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6 – 8:30 pm

Shake Things Up at Liquid Lab NYC’s Signature Mixology Class at Elsie Rooftop on 5/16

Food & Drink

Elsie Rooftop NYCManhattan

SPNA Spring Gala

6 – 9 pm

Stuyvesant Square Park Spring Fundraising Gala

Fundraisers

St. George’s Episcopal ChurchNY

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6 – 9 pm

NoMad Design District Night: Fireclay Tile

Free

26 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011NoMad

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6 – 11 pm

19th Annual Feast by the Shore

Tappen ParkStaten Island

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6:30 – 9:30 pm

Anna Maria Villa sings at Vetro Restaurant & Lounge

Nightlife

Vetro Restaurant & LoungeHoward Beach

Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Manhattan

7 – 9 pm

EPIC Players Theatre presents Seussical the Musical: A Neuro-Inclusive Production

A.R.T/New YorkManhattan

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7 – 8:30 pm

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Theatre RowManhattan

Jeff Simmermon by Bryan Berlin 2

7 – 8 pm

CareGiver

Comedy

SOHO PLAYHOUSESoHo

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7 – 9 pm

Alexandria: Off-Broadway

Theater

Dixon PlaceNew York, NY

7 – 9 pm

MADDIE: A New Musical

Theater

The Players TheatreNew York City

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7 – 9:30 pm

Speakeasy, Die Softly: Immersive Murder Mystery Dinner Theater at Carmine’s

Carmine’s Italian Restaurant – Times SquareNew York City

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7 pm

The Dan Band

Music

Le Poisson RougeNew York, NY

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7 – 8 pm

Gene Pritsker – Composers Concordance – Harlem Jazz Series

Music

Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian ChurchHarlem

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7 – 8:30 pm

Harlem Jazz Series Presents: Composers Concordance; ‘In4Mation’

Music

Mount Morris Ascension Presbyterian ChurchHarlem

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7 – 8:30 pm

Backbone

Ages: 5 and up
Family

Alice Tully HallManhattan

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7 – 9 pm

Esto No Tiene Nombre

Theater

Teatro LATEAManhattan

MAY Kween Poster

7 – 9 pm

Kweendom

Comedy
Free

Pete’s Candy StoreBrooklyn

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7 pm

Kane Brown

UBS ArenaElmont

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7:30 – 9 pm

Those Who Remained

Theater

La MaMaEast Village

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7:30 – 9:30 pm

OUTRAGED HEARTS: INTERIOR: PANIC and THE PRETTY TRAP

Houghton Hall Arts CommunityManhattan

L: Kayla Mak and Elijah Geolina in Houston Thomas’s U Don’t Know Me. Photo: Rosalie O’Connor. R: YeonSeo Choi and Kayke Carvalho in the Black Swan pas de deux from Kevin McKenzie’s Swan Lake. Photo: Emma Zordan.

7:30 – 9 pm

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company: Spring Moves

Ages: 9 and up
Art
Dance
Family

NYU SkirballManhattan

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7:30 – 9:30 pm

Between Memory and Madness: Wedding Dress Premieres Off-Broadway

Art
Theater

PLAYHOUSE 46 at St. Luke’sHell’s Kitchen

7:30 – 8:30 pm

Defector Media presents Ten Minute Quarters: A WNBA Comedy Show

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